Salim Bashi (b. 1971) is a French writer born in Algeria, author of the novels Kahina (2003), Kill 'Em All (2006) and the book of essays Self-Portrait with Granada: Fantasies of a Traveler. The novel “The Hound of Odysseus” was awarded the 2001 Prix Goncourt in the category “First Novel” and the “Vocation” Prize of the Marcel Blestein-Blanchet Foundation. The intellectual novel is a postcolonial variation on the eternal Homeric plot. The novel takes place in the city of Cirta, a Carthaginian colony that arose between the mid-5th and mid-3rd centuries. BC e. on Numidian soil and over time turned into Algeria. Cirta is the cumulative image of Algeria in all eras of its existence.